André Gonçalves
@fieryangelsfell.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Center for the Evolutionary Origins of Human Behavior, Kyoto Uni. Interested in primatology, cognition, anthropology, history, & comparative thanatology.
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Le chagrin des animaux : mythe ou réalité ? - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Que ressentent les animaux face à la mort de leurs congénères, et qu’en comprennent-ils ? À travers des exemples passionnants, une exploration d’un champ d’études en plein essor : la thanatologie anim...
www.arte.tv
In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world.
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
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Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a champion for elephants 🐘 & one of the inspirations for my own research. He was among the 1st to study ele social behaviour & it was his life's work to protect them
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pioneering elephant conservationist, dies aged 83
His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.
www.bbc.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a champion for elephants 🐘 & one of the inspirations for my own research. He was among the 1st to study ele social behaviour & it was his life's work to protect them
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world.
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
Le chagrin des animaux : mythe ou réalité ? - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Que ressentent les animaux face à la mort de leurs congénères, et qu’en comprennent-ils ? À travers des exemples passionnants, une exploration d’un champ d’études en plein essor : la thanatologie anim...
www.arte.tv
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world.
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
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🚨 The Evothan Collective is now on Bluesky!
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
Comparative Thanatology Highlights — 2025 Edition.
See the thread below for this year’s standout publications.
#comparativethanatology
See the thread below for this year’s standout publications.
#comparativethanatology
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚨 The Evothan Collective is now on Bluesky!
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world.
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
Le chagrin des animaux : mythe ou réalité ? - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
Que ressentent les animaux face à la mort de leurs congénères, et qu’en comprennent-ils ? À travers des exemples passionnants, une exploration d’un champ d’études en plein essor : la thanatologie anim...
www.arte.tv
December 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
In 2024, my colleagues and I organized the @evothan symposium, bringing together experts in comparative thanatology from around the world.
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
At the time, a French documentary team captured many of us in action: now available to watch here (w/ Eng subtitles): www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...
#animalgrief
🚨 The Evothan Collective is now on Bluesky!
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
Comparative Thanatology Highlights — 2025 Edition.
See the thread below for this year’s standout publications.
#comparativethanatology
See the thread below for this year’s standout publications.
#comparativethanatology
December 9, 2025 at 12:35 PM
🚨 The Evothan Collective is now on Bluesky!
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
Follow for updates on comparative thanatology, discover how animals respond to death and keep up with the newest research in this fascinating field!
#Evothan #ComparativeThanatology
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sad news that Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died. A great and wonderful champion of elephants over a long life! He has changed the world for the better, especially how people view elephants.
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 AM
sad news that Iain Douglas-Hamilton has died. A great and wonderful champion of elephants over a long life! He has changed the world for the better, especially how people view elephants.
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🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
🚨Job Alert plz RT!
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
Johns Hopkins Psych & Brain Sciences is looking for a new colleague using behavioral or computational approaches to study cognition!
We are excited about many areas of (esp higher) cognition in human adults, children, or nonhuman animals
Open-rank
apply.interfolio.com/178146
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Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Excited to share our methods preprint on CapuchinAI! 🐒💻
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
We built a field touchscreen + real-time facial recognition system (YOLOv7) that lets wild capuchins “log in” and complete individualized cognitive tasks.
@emoryuniversity.bsky.social @gatechengineers.bsky.social
#PrimateCognition #AI
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Thanks to @sabs.bsky.social for inviting my thoughts on leopard-seal moms' behaviors at pup death, reported by Sperou et al.; I ask, shouldn't maternal grief (not only post-mortem attention) be considered in peer-reviewed science? #animalemotion #pinnipeds #wildlife #polarbiology #multispecies 🧪
Why Won’t Nora The Leopard Seal Abandon Her Dead Pups? | Defector
In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial f...
defector.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Thanks to @sabs.bsky.social for inviting my thoughts on leopard-seal moms' behaviors at pup death, reported by Sperou et al.; I ask, shouldn't maternal grief (not only post-mortem attention) be considered in peer-reviewed science? #animalemotion #pinnipeds #wildlife #polarbiology #multispecies 🧪
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Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
November 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown!
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
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Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
November 25, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Come and join our lab! We have TWO fully funded PhD positions AND a paid field assistant opportunity in our Behavioral Ecology group @uni-goettingen.de & @primatenzentrum.bsky.social. Projects will be part of @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social & @sfb1528.bsky.social!!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
Details in thread. Please re-post!
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We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Shaped by domestication: Did the evolution of facial muscle anatomy and ear morphology in dogs reflect adaptations to humans’ unconscious preferences?
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October 21, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We’re looking for a motivated & curious researcher to join our team as a PhD candidate! You’ll work with Prof. Bridget Waller, Dr. Annika Bremhorst, & me at the Dog Cognition Centre, UoP.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
Are you fascinated by the dog–human bond & dog-human communication? 🐶
Interested? Get in touch with me.
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After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
After the Ngogo chimpanzee group killed 21 members of neighboring groups and expanded their territory by 22%, female birth rates more than doubled and infant survival increased sharply—showing clear fitness benefits from intergroup killing. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/TKmf50XuPjY
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#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
#Job in #animalwelfare at University of Rhode Island!
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in Animal Health and Welfare. Focus on farm, companion, or zoo/captive wildlife. #academic @universityofri.bsky.social
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15931
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Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 13, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social.
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures.
All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
Please share / apply!🙏
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In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire O’Connell doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
November 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
In an increasingly divided world, how do strangers become friends? Parakeets might have something to teach us! New paper on formation of affiliative relationships, led by Dr. Claire O’Connell doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
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Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour:City Campus
Join us as a Research Assistant in Primate Behaviour! Gain excellent experience and skills working with a range of primatologists across NTU. A great stepping stone before embarking on a PhD!
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Fixed-term Research Assistant post in primate behaviour, likely desk based but good experience before applying for PhD funding. Join us at NTU! @ntupsychology.bsky.social
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Our seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back !
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)
www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)
www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...
Seminar Agency between Biology and Philosophy 2025/2026
Here, you will find the 2025-2026 programme, and general information about our seminar. The introductory post can be found here.ProgrammeThis year, we will meet each second Wednesday of each month, fr...
www.animalinventiveness.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Our seminar on animal agency, between biology and philosophy, is back !
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)
www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...
Check out the programme for the next sessions here !
We meet on the second Wednesday of each month, on Zoom, from 4 to 5 PM (UK time).
You’re very welcome to join ! :)
www.animalinventiveness.com/post/seminar...
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Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs
The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...
www.science.org
October 30, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵
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🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
June 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🎉Welcome to the official Bluesky account for EFP 2026 !!! 🎉
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
Join us in sunny Montpellier from 29 June to 3 July 2026 for an unforgettable conference.
Follow us for updates, sneak peeks, and all things EFP! ☀️📅🌿
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#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 AM
#CrowCoG is hiring🚨MULTIPLE PAID RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITIONS 🚨for our 2026 field season (May - Sep)! Field and aviary-based positions - come help us study the remarkable tool-making New Caledonian crows. Apply here: bit.ly/3WlxxHE
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Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
October 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Exciting new work from former team members Eric Romero, Cwyn Solvi, Fei Peng and colleagues makes the cover of Science: affective contagion in bumblebees! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
Global body adopts policy to protect Earth’s old, wise and large animals | Charles Darwin University
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has recognised Charles Darwin University-led research into the Earth’s oldest animals with the adoption of the ‘Longevity Conservation’ global...
www.cdu.edu.au
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
the IUCN have passed the Longevity Conservation motion put forward to them by @kellerfish.bsky.social and @pili-scotland.bsky.social and based on the paper we wrote on the value of older individuals in animal societies.
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
www.cdu.edu.au/news/global-...
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super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
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⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Analysis of communication and collective behavior in animal groups
imprs-qbee.mpg.de
October 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
⭐PhD position available!⭐
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...
Come join us @imprs-qbee.bsky.social to study communication and collective behavior in animal groups! We're looking for someone excited to use computational approaches to tackle biological questions, using our full-group tracking datasets
imprs-qbee.mpg.de/121465/analy...